Certification ? [Microsoft]

[XtremeMaC]

i'm currently on MCSD.NET / MCP / MCAD certificate, well going to school for it, i've 300hours to the completion & just have to pass the exams

erm there is a little point in these certifications u guys are missing out, when an empoyer comes and asks u what u can do, u can show them your certificate, so its the same BS as high school/univercity diploma

[FAT64]

The best preparation for these certificates is probably a mixture of both experience and book-reading. You can pass these tests by just reading books because you take an online exam and not a practical test. If you had to demonstrate your skills, then the pure book-readers would probably fail, but it's just questions in an online test.

[matrix0978]

Yeah i was just thining about geting a Cisco Cert. after i take a few classes.

Im going to take a Hardware/OS class. And im also going to take a Networking Fundementals and then build up from there to take the test.

I can already build a computer easy. And i know alot about networking but this is just to fill in the blanks. I know im doing this at a young age (14) but i think it would be worth it.

[rjz]

I have an mcp in windows 2000 pro.

[Andromeda43]

Want a certificate? For $5 I'll print you one and mail it to you.....anywhere in the world.

Which one do you want?

That's what they are worth. (about $5)

You can have all the certificates that your wall can hold, and if you don't have the good common sence to fix a computer, all that paper ain't worth spit.

I don't hold any certificates but my High School Diploma, (except a few from Epson Corp.) and I have taught computers for my community education dept and courses in "System Fault Analysis" for ITT Corp.

It takes years of experience and lots of good common sence to fix computers and be good at it.....not a wall full of certificates.

Cheers,

Andromeda43

[Stoic Joker]

MCSA 2000 & 2003

MCP 2000 & XP

MCTS Vista

and a CompTIA A+ Cert

[Camarade_Tux]

Hum, not a single and planning not to have any.

[gosh]

I just have A+ and MCP. Certs dont matter. Certs are written by microsoft PR to sell you microsoft products, not really to learn anything.

-gosh

[cluberti]

I don't know - I'm not sure I agree with all of the anti-cert people. I think the MC** certs got a bad name back in NT4 and 2000 due to the ease of which someone could get a cert - however, the 2003 certs were much harder to achieve without real-world experience, and the Vista/2008 certs are *really* quite a bit harder without having good knowledge of the product (crams will be a LOT harder for these than they have been).

A cert from someone without experience is generally worthless, but getting one with experience is similar to saying "not only can I do it, the vendor has certified me to this level of proficiency". Not all people see it this way, but when I hire, I choose experience first, and then use certs as a tiebreaker when one needs to be had (at least for the 2003 variants and up). I'm glad that gone are the days when everyone with an MC** cert could easily have been a "paper MCSE". To each his or her own, of course, but certs with experience are valuable in my opinion.